Jordon Patterson, a trial lawyer and member of more than 20 jury trial teams, defends companies in complex product liability lawsuits. Specifically, she has served as second-chair trial counsel in multiple trials and as first-chair trial counsel in two trials. Jordon has tried cases in state and federal courts.
Since 2009, Jordon has been part of the national coordinating counsel team representing R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in thousands of personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits across Florida. Jordon has been involved in all stages of litigation and has developed a broad range of experience that includes written discovery, taking and defending expert and fact depositions, motions practice, the evaluation and preparation of fact and expert witnesses for trial, and examination of fact and expert witnesses at trial. She has extensive experience with experts across multiple fields including oncology, pulmonology, cardiology, psychiatry, and history.
Since 2011, Jordon has coauthored the Georgia chapter of Business Torts: A Fifty-State Guide. Jordon is also actively involved in recruiting and conducts Georgia State University School of Law's on campus interviews.
Experiencia
- Georgia State University (J.D. magna cum laude 2009; Associate Editor, Georgia State University Law Review; Pro Bono Distinction); Covenant College (B.A. in History magna cum laude 2004)
- Georgia and Florida
Rising Star, Law360, May 2016
Winner, Georgia "Commercial Litigation Department of the Year," The Daily Report, April 23, 2014
Winner, Georgia "General Litigation Department of the Year," The Daily Report, April 25, 2013
- Extern to: Judge Wendy L. Shoob, Superior Court of Fulton County (Spring 2009) and Justice P. Harris Hines, Supreme Court of Georgia (Fall 2008)